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July 14, 2020 75 mins

Hear the story of Harry Raymond, a “gentleman thief” in the 19th century, who became a millionaire, through robberies and swindles, yet he died broke, homeless, and buried in a graveyard for the poor.

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HISTORICAL REFERENCES:

The Napoleon of The Crime World

Lyons, Sophie, Why Crime Does Not Pay. Chapter 2 (1913).

Sante, Luc, Low Life (1990), pp. 197-250.

Police Blotter & Court News

Cleveland Plain Dealer, July 19, 1859.

GUEST VOICES:

The Napoleon of The Crime World

Narrator – Moxie LaBouche, host of Your Brain on Facts podcast.

New York Herald Reporter - Jerry Kokich, professional voice artist.

Police Blotter & Court News

Narrator – Sam, co-host of Spooky Adventures of Alec and Sam podcast.

Police Blotter Intro Title Voice - Kim Wellman, free-lance voice artist.


MISCELLANEOUS:

Exit Aphorism (voice) – Kit Caren, co-host Forgotten News Podcast.

Host IntroNina Innsted, host of the Already Gone podcast.

Exit Aphorism - Source:  G.K. Chesterton, The Man Who Was Thursday (1908).

MUSIC:

Kevin MacLeod  of Incompetech.com – Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses / by 3.0 At Rest

At Rest

The Curtain Rises

I Knew A Guy

isisip:

My lonely road

MoirasFate (audio link seems to have vanished from the internet):

Sad Humming 


All Sound Effects & Short Instrumentals Are From Freesound.org. 


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